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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9565035" data-attributes="member: 7737">157The crypt thing is a skeletal being (of course) seated on a throne decorated with death's heads. (Metal!) It wears a brown robe and in its hand holds the Sceptre of Bhukod, “a mace-shaped rod of golden metal, its bulbous end composed of a silver setting containing three golden pearls."[The number of D&D relevant words used to describe this magic item is off the chart: sceptre, wand, mace, rod… we're just missing "glaive" for me to fill my Gygaxian bingo card.]The crypt thing asks if we have come to steal the sceptre, which it hefts and points at us menacingly.We explain that we want to keep the sceptre out of our uncle's hands because he would use its powers for evil. Whereas we will return it to "the Kandian people whose ancestors lie here under your watchful eyes."[Given that the crypt thing doesn't immediately correct our mistake, I suppose this cements that fact that Kandians = Bhukodians. I take back some of my previous rants.]…[No, who am I kidding; the rants stand.]Rufyl congratulates us for a good speech and advises us to wait while the crypt thing considers: It has no need for the sceptre. It only craves diversion.The guardian extends the rod towards us. "Come then! Take the wand and be gone!"But a voice booms out of the darkness. A voice we're all too familiar with: Beldon. He must have "somehow" followed us here. [How?! Per Rufyl, only the crypt thing can teleport people down here, which is the ENTIRE POINT of why Landor set it to guard the sceptre. So HOW did Beldon get here?]Beldon demands "the wand" for himself. We can't let him have it. We may have to sacrifice our own life to protect the guisarme-voulge.(218) grab the halberd even though we don't know how it works, or(239) use one of our novice spells</blockquote>

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